[Sca-cooks] Period or no?

[Elaine Koogler]

Avraham haRofeh wrote:

>The kicker there is that what we might consider a reasonable addition or 
>subtraction might be something that would never occur to a period cook - 
>either because the foodstuff wasn't available yet, or the technique, or it 
>simply "isn't done that way". You have to THINK like a medieval cook when 
>tinkering with a medieval recipe, or you run the risk of losing your 
>period-ness - and that's hard to do.
>
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>Reb Avraham haRofeh
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>
Yes, I understand, and meant that to be implicit in what I was saying.  
I know when I alter a recipe...and I know why I alter it...and, if it's 
for the SCA, I make sure that those looking at/eating my work know 
this...and that it may no longer taste like what a period cook would 
have created.

Kiri